Constructibility of the universal wave function

DOI10.1007/S10701-016-0018-7MaRDI QIDQ2360329zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Arkady Bolotin

Publication date 3 July 2017

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.06845

zbMATH Keywords

many-world interpretationDirac's formalismmathematical constructivismconstructive existence proofshypercomputingphysical finitismpotential realizabilityuniversal wave function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: This paper focuses on a constructive treatment of the mathematical formalism of quantum theory and a possible role of constructivist philosophy in resolving the foundational problems of quantum mechanics, particularly, the controversy over the meaning of the wave function of the universe. As it is demonstrated in the paper, unless the number of the universe's degrees of freedom is fundamentally upper bounded (owing to some unknown physical laws) or hypercomputation is physically realizable, the universal wave function is a non-constructive entity in the sense of constructive recursive mathematics. This means that even if such a function might exist, basic mathematical operations on it would be undefinable and subsequently the only content one would be able to deduce from this function would be pure symbolical.

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